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Originally Posted by silentm
well as you have an object that is a bit lighter than the other one i imagine it might fall faster towards the earth but probably about this much faster 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 s
so it can't really be seen directly or properly measured (physics is an incredibly accurate science but come on this is quite impossible imo)
if you enlarged the scale, of course the gravity constant will be changed (you want to let it fall higher but you are getting further away from the mass (earth) and so you get 'lighter') so overall it probably can't be proven.
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Originally Posted by philip
Interesting question.
I assume it would depend on the circumstances.
At some point unless the differences in the two items being dropped were very great. The simple act of measuring the result would change the answer. This has some thing to do with someones cat, I have forgotten the name of the owner, I think it started with an S like Schroder or Schrodenger's Cat.
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Both of you are correct. Fact of the matter is that any object will exert gravational pull on earth, and the more massive object of course will exert more pull.
But the problem is measuring it. It is hard to measure when one object is so much larger than the other. A sphere (steel ball or snow ball) to earth.
It all has to do with relativity.
Fact of the matter is that this was already Proven by Newton's 3rd Law.
Thank you guys.